Tuesday, September 25, 2012

In 4 weeks, the IntelliFest 2012 conference will take place in San Diego (starting Monday October 22nd). IntelliFest is the successor of RulesFest and as always brings a mix of presentations, both for managers and developers, and bootcamps to get the practical experience.

As part of that, there will also be a FREE Drools & jBPM bootcamp and a healthcare day. Tihomir will take care of the jBPM presentations there, giving an overview of jBPM, BPMN2 and human tasks.

1600-1620Dr Xiao Hu, Department of Neurosurgery, University of CaliforniaClinical Decision Support Driven Alarms

1630-1700Panel Discussion - Collaboration Opportunities

Tuesday - General Drools&jBPM Workshop (free)

8.00 AM: Breakfast Social – pre-laptop setup, and QA time with solution Architects.-Key will be provided to setup your laptop, so you can view and run the examples used during the talks.

9.00 BRMS Product Overview (Prakash Aradhya 15min)
How we turn the Drools and jBPM communtiy parts into a world class
product. Supporting and harvesting all the innovation done in the open
community, Red Hat delivers reliable, dependable and integrated
solutions for enterprise customers.

11.05 Introduction to jBPM and BPMN2 (Tihomir Surdilovic 45min)
jBPM is a BPM engine designed for flexible processes, implementing and
extending the BPMN2 spec. Built form the ground up to be part of a
unified strategy for business automation and decision management. jBPM
fully integrates with Drools Expert and Fusion.

11.45 Decision Modelling with Graphical Editors (Edson Tirelli 30min)
Drools Expert provides sophisticated web based tooling, around decision
tables, guided editors and templates. Our decision modelling approach
draws from the very best research found at Dr Jan Vanthienien school of
Decision Modelling.

13.30 Human Tasks up Close and Personal (Tihomir Surdilovic 40min)
Human tasks are a central component of BPM. This example driven talk
will build an example live, demonstrating what jBPM’s Human Task
technology can do for you.

14.20 Building Games with Drools – Pong, Snake and Wumpus (Mark Proctor 40min)
Time for some hard play, learn how to build classic computer games with
Drools. These also provide interesting exercises in BA requirements
gathering.

15.50 Drools Chance for Imperfect Reasoning (Davide Sottara 40min)
Sometimes data quality is not perfect, so facts may not be known with
precision and certainty. Likewise, crisp constraints such as hard
thresholds might not be able to capture the complexity of a business
policy. Drools Chance allows to apply gradual and/or probabilistic
constraints to uncertain or vague data.

16.40 UberFire – Drools&jBPM Workbench framework (Mark Proctor 30min)
UberFire is a new project that forms the foundation of our 6.0 web
tooling. It’s standalone framework that provides a sophisticated
workbench framework for the web; where everything is a plugin. Come
learn about the Uberfire, and how you can use the workbench to build
your own web applications.

17.10 Drools&jBPM 6.0 and Beyond (Optional : open as long as people remain)
An open presentation and discussion about the design ideas, principles
and goals that are driving the development of Drools & jBPM version
6.0. This will be an optional and informal session where attendees will
have the opportunity to learn about what is coming, contribute ideas and
provide feedback that will be taken in consideration by the development
team.

17.10 Hands on Lab
Run at the same time as "Drools&jBPM and Beyond" and Beyond.
Solution Architects are on hand to help you with your coding problems,
and running examples.

About Me

Kris is a Senior Software Engineer at JBoss, by Red Hat, where he leads the jBPM project (an open-source business process management (BPM) suite), and is also part of the Drools project (an open-source Java rules engine). The jBPM project consists of a lightweight workflow engine in Java that support native BPMN 2.0 execution and various tools and features around that to support business processes throughout their entire life cycle.

Kris did a PhD in Computer Science at the Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven, Belgium. His main research area is policy-based management,
i.e. using declarative policy rules for configuring services, resulting
in highly-configurable, reusable services. He has experience and a
great intrest in policy-based and rule-based systems, workflow
management, service-oriented software development and clinical decision
support.

In his spare time, Kris also does athletics (ROBA) and plays volleybal (Berg Op Wijgmaal, Heren2).